Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1889 — A Picket Fence Over a Hill. [ARTICLE]

A Picket Fence Over a Hill.

“R. 1). C.” asks if it will take more pickets to build a fence through a hill than over it, the pickets to be set two inches apart* and to be two inches wide in both cases. It will depend on how tho pickets are set. If in both cases they are set perpendicularly to the plane of the hill the same number will be required in both cases. But if the pickets over the hill are sot perpendicularly to the surface of tho hill it will require more, but how many more will depend upon the difference in distance over and through the hill. —Chicago News.